CITY OF ARLINGTON: EPA violation history, explained
CITY OF ARLINGTON has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 413,955 people through 155,112 service connections.
How this compares nationally
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, CITY OF ARLINGTON ranks 8,787th by violation burden (32th percentile) - 4 violations total, 1 health-based.
How CITY OF ARLINGTON compares within TX
CITY OF ARLINGTON's 1 health-based violations sit within the TX average of 6.7, across 1,633 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CITY OF ARLINGTON is from 2020-01-01 (health-based: 2012-01-03). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF ARLINGTON's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
CITY OF ARLINGTON's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and CITY OF ARLINGTON's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,787th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.